Job description

Senior Manager – Private Business

Job description

About the team

The Southampton tax practice is set to achieve significant growth over the next few years, we are making a significant investment in new people because we are already successful and believe we can achieve much more. Working alongside privately owned and private equity backed businesses, our Senior Managers share their client's stories as they grow. They experience what it’s like to deliver value over the long term and make a meaningful contribution to their successes by helping them solve important problems and manage risks.

About the role

Experience of delivering advisory and compliance work to mid-market businesses is required, as well as the kind of skills that any Senior Manager in practice would be expected to display: portfolio management, delegation, day-to-day client handling etc. A track record of work-winning is highly desirable. We are looking for an individual with strong corporate tax knowledge, but ideally has experience or a desire to broaden this knowledge into a mixed tax role. You will also be expected to show an awareness of wider business and economic issues generally.The role will focus on servicing existing clients along with growing the business. Projects will be varied and wide ranging, so for example from outbound expansion to shareholder planning to transactions to innovation-based tax reliefs. You will receive full support from the Partners, and from internal technical specialists based in the region and nationally.

PwC exists to solve important problems. These roles provide exciting opportunities to do just that for some of the most dynamic businesses in the market.

Essential skills and experience

Practice-trained finance professional with a relevant professional qualification (eg ACA/ACCA/CTA)

Experience of advising privately-owned businesses on a variety of tax matters

Strong interpersonal skills including experience of client handling and sustaining relationships over a period of time

Business acumen, in terms of an interest in and understanding of broader business issues and an enthusiasm for developing this further in the private business market

Analytical skills and a ability to solve complex problems in a collaborative and creative way.

Evidence of work-winning is desirable.

LocationSouthampton

Tax

We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we’re one of the UK’s leading tax practices.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.